Worst TV sitcoms of the 70s (teacher, doctor, days, Ohio)
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Ah yes, tv shows with the word "Makin'" were big in the 70s. Does anyone remember "Makin' a Living"? It was about 4 waitresses who worked in downtown LA. Formulaic-a-mundo and awful awful awful. Catchy theme song, though.
Speaking about theme songs.... try getting this little ditty out of your head
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^Yes, but groovier! With a much cooler family car (the bus), and Shirley Jones wore hot pants!! Also, the episodes focused much more on the band touring the country, not as much on stories about the kids growing up in suburbia. The Partridges also had a fair amount of topical humor, but it was mostly pop culture references, not anything that was especially clever.
The Partridge Family had a godawful spinoff, BTW. Bobby Sherman appeared in the last episode of the first season as a struggling songwriter. This episode led into a short-lived spinoff series on ABC, Getting Together. Wes Stern was also in it as Bobby Sherman's business partner.
^Yes, but groovier! With a much cooler family car (the bus), and Shirley Jones wore hot pants!! Also, the episodes focused much more on the band touring the country, not as much on stories about the kids growing up in suburbia. The Partridges also had a fair amount of topical humor, but it was mostly pop culture references, not anything that was especially clever.
The Partridge Family had a godawful spinoff, BTW. Bobby Sherman appeared in the last episode of the first season as a struggling songwriter. This episode led into a short-lived spinoff series on ABC, Getting Together. Wes Stern was also in it as Bobby Sherman's business partner.
Have to agree on M*A*S*H -- I used to like it, and I think the early years were actually pretty good. But when the Alan Alda character started getting all indignant and preachy it jumped the shark.
The Facts of Life made me want to poke my eyes out. What a horrid show! I've raised teenage girls. They ain't all THAT sweet and treacly.
You forgot one! It started in 1977 and ran till '86, so it still counts...
Wasn't Making A Living just a temporary name for the series It's A Living? I recall It's A Living moving from network to first-run syndication and doing several cast changes, and I always believed they had temporarily renamed it, then went back to the original title. Maybe I'm remembering wrong. It was never going to win any awards, but it wasn't awful or anything.
I liked Alice, but its spin-off Flo was not all that good. One thing I notice on this thread is that the 1970s is rife with spin-offs centered around supporting characters who were not really suited to be the lead character in their own show.
Wasn't Making A Living just a temporary name for the series It's A Living? I recall It's A Living moving from network to first-run syndication and doing several cast changes, and I always believed they had temporarily renamed it, then went back to the original title. Maybe I'm remembering wrong. It was never going to win any awards, but it wasn't awful or anything.
I liked Alice, but its spin-off Flo was not all that good. One thing I notice on this thread is that the 1970s is rife with spin-offs centered around supporting characters who were not really suited to be the lead character in their own show.
Not true, the Maude character was spinned off and had a successful run
Well of course there were exceptions...I'm just saying there were more than a few that tanked. For every Maude or Benson, there was a Joanie Loves Chachi, a Flo, a Fish, or Phyllis.
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I see it only lasted 5 months.
The Partridge Family? 4-5 years, not five months. As I recall it had the same run as the Brady Bunch, which is one of the reasons the two shows are often paired.
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